Saul Bellow Quotes
The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn.
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.
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Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.
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Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
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I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.
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What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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Great musicians, you don't just hear them, you feel them. When I listen to Randy Rhoads, I feel every note. I learned a lot from him.
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Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
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I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.
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Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.
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Life throws many curve balls, and if you don't swing... you're never going to hit any!
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…ibi boni mores valent quam alibi bonae leges. 2
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'…Just you bloody hypocrites with your four wives and your ten thousand houris in heaven?…'
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You want to continue with the social safety net: the good, the bad and the ugly parts of that, you have to have a vibrant economy. You have to have growth of the economy.
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The best sheep breeders are in Australia and New Zealand.
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A modern poet has characterized the personality of art and the impersonality of science as follows: Art is I: Science is We.
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Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've entered a geological era called the anthropocene. This started, perhaps, with the invention of thermonuclear weapons.
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The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn.
